Free Speech and Community Values Working Group Q+A

1 month 4 weeks ago
In the fall of 2023, Dean Srikant Datar announced the formation of four working groups to address current issues on campus: Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism, Classroom Culture and Norms, and Free Expression and Community Values. Below is our conversation with the co-chairs of the Free Expression and Community Values Working Group, Debora Spar and Clayton Rose, about the goals, challenges, and progress towards clarifying the relationship between free speech, academic freedom, and community values.
Debora Spar & Clayton Rose & By: Shona Simkin

Helping Postdocs Find Their Way at Harvard Medical School

2 months ago
Postdoctoral training is challenging for a lot of reasons. Fortunately, the roughly 800 postdoctoral fellows on the Harvard Medical School campus and 4,000 postdocs at HMS-affiliated hospitals have access to resources through the HMS/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Office for Postdoctoral Fellows. As part of that, fellows can get help from the person who literally wrote the book on how postdocs can make the most of this time in their careers: Jim Gould , director for postdoctoral affairs at HMS since 2011. Get more HMS news here In a conversation with Harvard Medicine News , Gould discussed...
By LISA McEVOY